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NEW DELHI: Observing two decades since the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya today, Samajwadi Party MPs attacked the BJP seeking their apology over the incident. Protesting outside the Parliament House here, the Members of Parliament led by SP leader Naresh Agarwal displayed anti-BJP placards, observing December 6 as a 'Black Day'. Agarwal told reporters here that the culprits of the demolition had still not been punished and the BJP should apologize to the nation over the incident.

NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday attacked Congress for linking the Allahabad high court verdict on the Ayodhya title suits with the demolition of Babri Masjid even though criminal proceedings are underway in the second case. "At this stage, it is a high court verdict which has come on a bunch of civil suits based on certain issues. And to that extent, we respect what has come in the judgment. At this stage, to time and again link it with demolition of Babri Masjid.

NEW DELHI: In keeping with one of its key pre-poll promises, Arvind Kejriwal-led Delhi government today issued directions to various agencies not to carry out any demolition across the city until it reviews the existing policies governing demolitions. Today was the first working day of the AAP government, which called its first Cabinet meeting which passed such directions to different agencies. In the Assembly poll, the Aam Aadmi Party had promised that no demolition would be carried out in the city if it came to power.

NEW DELHI: The 1992 Babri Mosque demolition was an "act of planned sabotage" and not a by frenzied mob of Hindu outfits, a news portal claimed today on the basis of a sting operation it had carried over a period of two years. At a press conference here, Cobrapost editor Anirudh Behl screened the recorded interviews in which some low rung leaders of BJP VHP and Shiv Sena have claimed that the operation was carried out with precision by their volunteers after going through intensive training and mock drills.

NEW DELHI: With an eye on assembly polls later this year, Delhi Government is considering freezing all sorts of sealing and demolition in residential and commercial areas in the city. The issue was discussed at a cabinet meeting presided over by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today. Sources said Dikshit was in favour of not allowing any kind of sealing and demolition drive in residential areas including in unauthorised colonies. "The government is likely to come out with some sort of guidelines to put a total brake on sealing and demolition in the city," they said.

NEW DELHI: Sahara Group on Tuesday approached the Supreme Court seeking contempt action against the Lucknow Development Authority for carrying out certain demolition at Sahara Saher against the apex court's order to maintain status quo. A Bench headed by Justice Altamas Kabir decided to hear the matter on Wednesday after Sahara mentioned it before the Bench. The Bench said the matter will be heard only after the application is filed and the copy of it is served to the opposite party.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has slammed CBI for dragging its feet on appealing against an order dropping charges of criminal conspiracy against several BJP leaders, including party veteran LK Advani, in the 1992 Babri Masjid demolition case, and for terming the demolition as 'national crime'. "Till the trial court decides, we can't be calling it a national crime," a two-judge bench, led by Justice HL Dattu, told CBI counsel PP Rao on Thursday. The agency's description of the demolition as a national crime came amid a renewed attempt by BJP to revive the issue of erecting the proposed Ram temple at the site in Ayodhya in the run-up to the next general elections.

NEW DELHI: The Babri Masjid demolition is just an incident and there is nothing famous or infamous about it, the Supreme Court today said while listing CBI's plea for levelling charges of criminal conspiracy against senior BJP leader L K Advani , Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray and 18 others to March 27. "What is famous about it. It was an incident which happened and parties are before us. It is not famous or...

NEW DELHI: Yet another book has levelled an allegation that P V Narasimha Rao had connived at the demolition of Babri Masjid claiming that the late Prime Minister had sat in a puja when the kar sevaks began pulling it down and rose only when it was over. The charge relating to the demolition on Dec 6, 1992 has been made by eminent journalist Kuldip Nayar in his soon-to-be released autobiography "Beyond the Lines" being brought out by Roli Books. "My information was that Rao had connived at the demolition.

MUMBAI: BJP MP Poonam Mahajan has sought demolition of a ramp near Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's bungalow in suburban Bandra, following complaints by local residents of alleged illegal construction. "The residents of the area have for long been complaining about the chaos and traffic build up there due to the ramp. Thus, I have written a letter to Brihamumbai Municipal Corporation Commissioner Sitaram Kunte to demolish that illegal ramp. We need to look at this issue legally and lawfully follow the procedures as we are supposed to do as a government," Mahajan told PTI today.